Michael Sheldon wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
>> The dictionary prediction is driving me crazy.
>>>> I'm trying to type "ls", and the damned dictionary is trying to be "smart", and is changing it to "is".
>>>> So I'm sitting here in a terminal, typing "ls", and "is" is all I can get.
>>>> Also, I lost track of where the "Full-QWERTY" keyboard layout was for ASU, and how to find/enable/create it.
>>>> Sorry for being such a pain, but the terminal will be one of the main apps I use on this thing, so I'm finding these.
>> I assume by the predictive dictionary you're using the built-in qtopia
> keyboard. You can get it to not be predictive by holding a key until the
> zoom dialog pops up (a little gray circle showing which key you have
> pressed). And you can get at other keyboard buttons (symbols, numbers,
> etc.) by sliding your finger upwards or downwards.
>> By the "Full-QWERTY" keyboard I think you mean the Illume keyboard
> (which was what popped up until recently), but that's now disabled (in
> the Illume code) in favour of the qtopia keyboard. But you should be
> able to get virtually all the same keys you had available with that with
> the qtopia keyboard (there are a small number missing, like the cursor
> keys), you just have to know about the need to slide upwards to reveal
> the other layouts.
>
One additional thing to consider, which might be useful for a lot of
people, is adding standard unix commands to the dictionary (perhaps a
script to automatically populate it with the contents of /bin /usr/bin/
/usr/sbin etc.)?
Mike.